A new user to php.

**fileserverdirect** · 05-27-2008, 01:13 AM

This is farily easy to do, I could show you how, but is your form's html already done? Or do you need to start from scatch?

**jolicious** · 05-27-2008, 01:23 AM

I've already done the form codes. Its quite messy but it will do fine for now. If you want I could post the codes here. Thanks for your help.

**fileserverdirect** · 05-27-2008, 01:31 AM

Yea, please. Also have you made any php emailing script to process your form?

**jolicious** · 05-27-2008, 02:15 AM

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>FYP</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<form action="confirmation.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" method= "post">
<p align="center">Name:
<input type="text" name="name" />
</p>
<p align="center">Admin No.:

<input type="text" name="admin" />
</p>
<p align="center">Gender:
<select name="gender">
<option value="male" selected>Male</option>
<option value="female">Female</option>
</select>
</p>
<p align="center">Address:
<textarea name="address" cols="40"></textarea />
</p>
<p align="center">Home Phone:
<input type="text" name="hometel" />
</p>
<p align="center">Mobile Phone:
<input type="text" name="hp" />
</p>
<p align="center">Contact Email:
<input type="text" name="email" />
</p>
<p align="center">Course:
<select name="course"></select>
</p>
<p align="center">Acad Year:
<input type="text" name="year" />
</p>
<p align="center">Path:
<select name="path">
<option value="1">B1</option>
<option value="2">B2</option>
<option value="3">B3</option>
</select>
</p>
<p align="center">Project Title:
<textarea name="title" cols="40"></textarea>
</p>
<p align="center">Project Supervisor:
<select name="supervisor">
<option value="KC" selected>Mr. Stephen Liew K C</option>
<option value="ng">Mr. Steven Ng</option>
</select>
</p>
<p align="center">
<input name="submit" type="submit" />
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

There are the codes for my form. There is a confirmation page but that is not finish yet. For the emailing scripts, I don't need them for now as I need to show my supervisor the confirmation page shows up after submitting. I have not connect to the database yet as I have yet to install MS SQL. After all this is done I might have to integrate them into Joomla.

**fileserverdirect** · 05-28-2008, 02:39 AM

Try this:

Code:

<?php
session_start();
function checkphone()    {
$phone = $_POST['hometel'];
  if (!preg_match('/^[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$/', $phone)) {
echo '<font color="red"><b>Your telephone number is invalad</b></font>';
}
else
{
  foreach($_POST as $variable => $value)
  {
    $_SESSION[$variable] = $value;
  }
  header("location: conformation.php");
}

   }
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>FYP</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<form action="button.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" method= "post">
    <p align="center">Name:
      <input type="text" name="name" />
</p>
<p align="center">Admin No.:

  <input type="text" name="admin" />
</p>
<p align="center">Gender:
  <select name="gender">
    <option value="male" selected>Male</option>
    <option value="female">Female</option>
      </select>
</p>
<p align="center">Address:
  <textarea name="address" cols="40"></textarea />
</p>
<p align="center">Home Phone:
<input type="text" name="hometel" />  <br>
<?php checkphone();?>
</p>
<p align="center">Mobile Phone:
<input type="text" name="hp" />
</p>
<p align="center">Contact Email:
<input type="text" name="email" />
</p>
<p align="center">Course:
<select name="course"></select>
</p>
<p align="center">Acad Year:
<input type="text" name="year" />
</p>
<p align="center">Path:
<select name="path">
  <option value="1">B1</option>
  <option value="2">B2</option>
  <option value="3">B3</option>
</select>
</p>
<p align="center">Project Title:
  <textarea name="title" cols="40"></textarea>
</p>
<p align="center">Project Supervisor:
<select name="supervisor">
  <option value="KC" selected>Mr. Stephen Liew K C</option>
  <option value="ng">Mr. Steven Ng</option>
</select>
</p>
<p align="center">
<input name="submit" type="submit" />
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

--Just change your form action to whatever the page that it is on.
--You can custimize the looks later, this is just a basic framework of it.
--Change all of your $_POST[...]; on your confrimation page to $_SESSION[...]; and add session_start(); to it too.

**jolicious** · 05-29-2008, 01:14 AM

Thanks for the code. Could you teach me how the following code works as i would like to learn more about it. I tried using your code but after applying the code, the words your telephone number is invalid shows up before the form is submitted. Also I would like to know about session_start() too.

Code:

function checkphone()    {
$phone = $_POST['hometel'];
  if (!preg_match('/^[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$/', $phone)) {
echo '<font color="red"><b>Your telephone number is invalid</b></font>';
}
else
{
  foreach($_POST as $variable => $value)
  {
    $_SESSION[$variable] = $value;
  }
  header("location: conformation.php");
}

I've also create a confirmation page. But using the echo $_session, I can't get it to display anything. When i try it gives me a blank page. If its too much please tell me as I won't mind. I'm very new to this as this is my first time touching php, dreamweaver adn MS SQL.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>confirmation page</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<?php
session_start();



<div align="center">
 
  <p>Name: echo $_SESSION["name"] <br />
Admin No.: echo $_SESSION["admin"] <br />
Gender: echo $_SESSION["gender"] <br />
Address: echo $_SESSION["address"] <br />
Home Phone: echo $_SESSION["hometel"] <br />
Handphone: echo $_SESSION["hp"] <br />
Contact Email: echo $_SESSION["email"] <br />
Course: echo $_SESSION["course"] <br />
Acad Year: echo $_SESSION["year"] <br />
Path: echo $_SESSION["path"] <br />
Project title: echo $_SESSION["title"] <br />
Project Supervisor: echo $_SESSION["supervisor"] <br />

</p>

  <p>
    <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</p>
  <p>
    <input name="button" type=button onClick=window.history.back() value=Back back>
  </p>
  
  
</div>
?>

</body>
</html>

**fileserverdirect** · 05-29-2008, 06:08 PM

Ok I will break it down for you:
function checkphone() { is the start of a function called checkphone.

$phone = $_POST['hometel']; this is assigning $phone to the hometel value just submitted.
if (!preg_match('/^[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$/', $phone)) { this is the hard part to get, the stuff inside preg_match is a pattern.:
^: is the start of the line, [0-9] are optional characters, {3} is the amount it is repeated. etc... and the "!" before means "if it is not equal to".

echo '<font color="red"><b>Your telephone number is invalid</b></font>'; } is the code that is outputed when it is invalid.
else { foreach($_POST as $variable => $value) { is stating that if the phone nuber is valid, then turn all of the posted variables into varibales.
$_SESSION[$variable] = $value; this sets each variable to a session.
header("location: conformation.php"); this relocates you to conformation.php.
---
session_start() is how you introduce a page to a session. put this on each page the requires $_SESSION, like conformation.php. if you want to end a session and destroy all session varibles use session_destroy();
---
You can't put html in php on your conformation page

Try this
:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>confirmation page</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<?php
session_start();



<div align="center">
 
echo '<p>Name:  '.$_SESSION["name"].' <br />';
echo 'Admin No.:  '.$_SESSION["admin"].' <br />';
echo 'Gender:  '.$_SESSION["gender"].' <br />';
echo 'Address: '.$_SESSION["address"].' <br />';
echo 'Home Phone:  '.$_SESSION["hometel"].' <br />';
echo 'Handphone: '.$_SESSION["hp"].' <br />';
echo 'Contact Email:  '.$_SESSION["email"].' <br />';
echo 'Course: '.$_SESSION["course"].' <br />';
echo 'Acad Year: '.$_SESSION["year"].' <br />';
echo 'Path: '.$_SESSION["path"].' <br />';
echo 'Project title:'.$_SESSION["title"].' <br />';
echo 'Project Supervisor: '.$_SESSION["supervisor"].' <br />';
echo '
</p>

  <p>
    <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</p>
  <p>
    <input name="button" type=button onClick=window.history.back() value=Back back>
  </p>
  
  
</div>';
?>

</body>
</html>

There could be a problem, try it out and tell me what happens.

**jolicious** · 06-01-2008, 12:45 AM

Sorry for the late reply. I've tried the code you've gave me but also gives me an error where nothing shows up.

**fileserverdirect** · 06-01-2008, 02:44 PM

Sorry, I missed two key errors:
1. session_start(); should be before any outputted text...
2. <div align="center"> should be echo '<div align="center">';
Full code:

Code:

<?php
session_start();
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>confirmation page</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<?php



echo'<div align="center">';

echo '<p>Name:  '.$_SESSION["name"].' <br />';
echo 'Admin No.:  '.$_SESSION["admin"].' <br />';
echo 'Gender:  '.$_SESSION["gender"].' <br />';
echo 'Address: '.$_SESSION["address"].' <br />';
echo 'Home Phone:  '.$_SESSION["hometel"].' <br />';
echo 'Handphone: '.$_SESSION["hp"].' <br />';
echo 'Contact Email:  '.$_SESSION["email"].' <br />';
echo 'Course: '.$_SESSION["course"].' <br />';
echo 'Acad Year: '.$_SESSION["year"].' <br />';
echo 'Path: '.$_SESSION["path"].' <br />';
echo 'Project title:'.$_SESSION["title"].' <br />';
echo 'Project Supervisor: '.$_SESSION["supervisor"].' <br />';
echo '
</p>

  <p>
    <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</p>
  <p>
    <input name="button" type=button onClick=window.history.back() value=Back back>
  </p>


</div>';
?>

</body>
</html>

**jolicious** · 06-02-2008, 12:24 AM

Thanks you for the code. I've would like to ask if I left 1 option for the form blank as I don't know what I should include inside the option, would it disrupt the confirmation page? Because I've tried your code and it displays the words like Name:, Gender:, etc but it does not show the information typed into the form. I'm grateful for all of your help.

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